Hey all of you! I don’t wanna specify my name, but I am a 15 year old guy living in Helsinki Finland, and for 3 or so years I’ve been a barefooter! I cannot do it full time tho cuz the winters here in Finland are really cold, so usually late spring to mid spring I go barefoot all the time. My family has been very chill with it although at first they did have big doubts, considering Helsinki is a pretty big city to live in but overtime they got accepting of it. My friends think I’m a bit crazy but in general they don’t mind. While I’m in public, especially in the metro or malls or something I do get stares often, which is fine really. So glad to be a part of this community and hope I can get to know people in here
And OMG I’ve just now realised I said “from late spring to mid spring”. I meant to say from late spring to mid fall
Hey! And yeah you’re right, I was around 12 when I started, just around “easy” places like stores and grassy areas, but quickly I began expanding my territory to basically anywhere now. Best decision ever!
I started when I was 8 years old and I wish I could have gone bare feet in school . When I was in high school I walked around to my classes barefoot and some of my teachers let me be barefoot in the classroom it was awesome.
Hiii! Sounds awesome, starting at so young age and all that. Luckily I’ve always been able to be barefoot during school, there’s no rule for footwear
We didn’t have a foot wear rule either so I would walk to my classes barefoot with my shoes in one hand and my school books in the other . We had some teachers that would ask me and some others to put on your shoes so we would. But most teachers were ok with me and the other classmates going barefoot. And the teachers that let us they told me that I did really well on tests. And I notice it to . And hi I got the name barefoot rick back in Junior high because I would be barefoot in gym class. It’s really nice to hear that someone that is your age goes barefoot at school and everywhere else.
